Elevate Your Emotional Muscle: How Claiming Your Needs Increases Your Self-Esteem

Needs. We all have them. Yet, if you’re like me, you might not even know you have needs, or if you do, may not know what they are. I can’t tell you how many times I was waiting to be accepted or appreciated or respected by anyone but me.

Focusing on my needs felt selfish, inconsiderate, and uncaring. I was supposed to love YOU, not me because I was convinced (or taught) that loving others and putting them first, would get me love, acceptance, appreciation, and respect.

Besides needs felt elusive and confusing. It took me years, decades really, to get my head (and heart) around them enough to give myself permission to even utter the words, “I have a need…” The scariest words I have ever spoken. If this resonates with you, join me for this month’s topic, and let’s claim our right to have our needs.

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